"Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody."

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Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

Bruno Schulz

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“If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.”
“The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.”
“The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.”

Source : Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.508
“Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.”
“Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.”
“Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.”
“Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.”
“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”

Source : John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.121, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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